People have always told me I’m just like my dad. Ever since I was a little boy the similarities have been pointed out to me…
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6 Commentsour 125 year old farmhouse on the beach
People have always told me I’m just like my dad. Ever since I was a little boy the similarities have been pointed out to me…
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6 CommentsThe structural repairs are coming along nicely. It’s a good day when I feel like I have made lots of progress by quitting time. Hanging…
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Leave a CommentRe-configuring an old farm house to create modern living spaces isn’t particularly the easiest thing to do. Old houses were built differently, and were not…
2 CommentsEither physical or philosophical, every project needs to start with a solid foundation. Boy, were we in trouble! It’s not that we didn’t know what…
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1 CommentA hundred year old farm house with no heat and no insulation is not a great place to live in the winter in Canada. Easy…
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4 CommentsI’m OK Today was a fun day, I was a lumberjack. One of the things that really needed to be done in the first month…
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Leave a CommentThe guys from West Kootenay Septic solutions showed up to check out the septic system. As expected, it was so old and undersized that it…
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3 CommentsA sunny day 2 started with a trip to the storage unit to pick up a bunch of the tools to take to the house.…
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